Since October 7 last year, Israel has been attacking on the Palestinian Gaza Strip in the West Bank. In this year-long attack the United States has been sending a record amount of military assistance to the occupied force.
Palestinians are being killed indiscriminately by the arms and bombs from US supply.
Qatar based news outlet Al Jazeera revealed these groundbreaking information on Monday.
The US has supplied Israel with at least US$17.9bn in military aid since its war on Gaza began on October 7 last year, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project.
The report, released on the anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, says expenditure includes $4bn towards replenishing Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense systems, as well as cash for guns and jet fuel.
The report states that an additional $4.86bn in funding was supplied to US military operations in the Middle East during that timeframe.
This figure includes the costs associated with the US military’s campaign to quell Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, which the Yemen-based group says it’s carrying out in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
The calculations were made by Linda J Bilmes, a professor at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government, who assessed the cost of US wars since the September 11 attacks, along with researchers William D Hartung and Stephen Semler.
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